Lafourche Parish Court House

Henry Schuyler Thibodaux gave the parish the ground in 1818, a square 140 feet on a side, on one condition: the police jury had to exempt his hotel and billiard hall from taxes. In 1852 the jury planned a new courthouse and capped the cost at fifteen thousand dollars. Building began about 1858 and ended before 1862. In 1903 the firm Favrot and Livaudais added wings, copper-sheathed domes and a Green Street portico, and a 1958 renovation removed the original front, making Green Street the entrance. Bishop Leonidas Polk and General Braxton Bragg, both nearby planters, visited often.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center — 0.3 mi
  A Jean Lafitte National Historical Park center on Bayou Lafourche with Acadian and bayou-life exhibits, a 200-seat theater and ranger-guided boat tours to the E. D. White house.
• Laurel Valley Village — 2.1 mi
  A sugar plantation's workers' village south of Thibodaux, with cabins of about 1845, shotgun houses, a store and cemetery, and the 1887 strike and massacre in the parish around it.
• E. D. White Historic Site — 5.8 mi
  A National Historic Landmark house of about 1790 on Bayou Lafourche, built by enslaved people and home to two Whites, a governor and a Chief Justice, with an exhibit on the bayou's history.
• Southdown Plantation and Terrebonne Museum — 15 mi
  A Greek Revival sugar plantation house in Houma, worked by 233 enslaved people by 1852, with the last Terrebonne mill's story and a worker's cabin of about 1885.

More markers nearby

• St. Joseph Co-Cathedral — 0.3 mi
• Confluence Of Bayous — 0.3 mi
• Leonidas Polk — 0.3 mi
• Rienzi Plantation House — 0.4 mi